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Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam
Israel damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation sites every three days since the start of this war
Scholarships for Gaza students who have managed to leave Gaza and are either in France or Egypt
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has launched a special campaign to award scholarships to students from Gaza residing in Egypt or France. To be eligible, students must be taking degree programmes at the second- and third-year Bachelor’s, Master’s or doctorate levels, or a DU Passerelle, a one-year language training programme, during the academic year 2024-2025.
A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
Resisting Israeli Scholasticide and Academic Apartheid
Israel’s genocidal war is both massacring Palestinians and destroying their physical and social infrastructure. In particular, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions. In late April, UN experts concluded, “with more….
Marking a Decade of Impunity: The Killing of Four Bakr Children by the Israeli Military in Gaza
Gaza, Haifa, 16 July 2024 — Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family – Ahed (9 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years), and Ismail (9 years) – by the Israeli military in Gaza. In marking this somber anniversary, Al Mezan, Adalah, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) highlight the systematic failure of the Israeli legal system to hold perpetrators accountable for acts of violence against Palestinians. This failure persists amid Israel’s genocidal military campaign against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza over the last nine months.
This Week in Palestine (TWiP) “Heroes from Gaza”
Message from the Editor
“We have no food at home,” said one journalist with whom we have cooperated regarding this July 2024 issue of This Week in Palestine (TWiP) themed “Heroes from Gaza.” If working in such conditions doesn’t make a person a hero, then who deserves such a title?
Three Officers and a Philosopher: Inside the Secretive IDF Committee That Decides Who Is a Conscientious Objector
Human rights advocates say even MLK and Mahatma Gandhi would not be recognized as conscientious objectors based on the IDF’s definition of the term. Academics on the committee, activists, objectors and lawyers tell Haaretz how the military system deals with defiant refusers
Israel seeks to rewrite the laws of war
If the world accepts the way Israel now interprets the principle of proportionality, then genocide will become justified.